Torah Illuminated Series: Chanukah - What To Think at a Chanukah Party?

foreign [Music] parties are considered a sudas Mitzvah a meal which is fulfillment of a positive precept or the just sudas for show us they're just discretionary and they don't have any kadusha to them the opinion of the maram May rotenberg is that these Hanukkah parties are just or discretionary they have no kadusha to them on the other hand the martial and Simon pay hey says there is an element of Mitzvah and in shakhanarach in our fridge says because Hanukkah was not established Le mishta the simcha the Rama on the other hand brings some say there is some Mitzvah element and because during this time of the year it was the Hanukkah inauguration of the Miss bayach drama brings further that the custom is to sings Mira is to say praises to Hashem and this elevates it to the status of sudas mitzvah I like to share an idea that Bezos Hashem can inject a certain element of Mitzvah to our chanukkah parties as it is pretty widespread that many people do indeed celebrate together with their family on various nights of chanukkah with what is known as a chanukkah party Victor Miller to go through Miller schul for about three years and to hear him personally rev Miller brought out an idea based on Apostle Zion foreign we say it every morning bring to Hashem ascribe to Hashem render to Hashem families of Nations ascribed Hashem honor and strength interestingly this pasta is addressed not to the community and not to the individual most Mitzvahs are incumbent either on the Tibor Korea satores on the sibor destroying our Malik is on the sibor or we have most mitzels around the individual wearing fill in wearing Talusa so we have missiles that are incumbent upon the community and visual Center comment upon the individual but this this encouragement here render tashem honor and strength this is an incumbent upon the family unit says Victor Miller from here we see that gratitude is something that is not only incumbent upon the community not only incumbent upon the individual but is also incumbent upon the family unit there's a concept a family unit Must Praise And thank you so we go to schul and as a community we say Halal and as a community we praise Hashem on Hanukkah and but thereby we fulfill the element of Hanukkah of this likewise we do so as an individual we like the manure as an individual we say Alanis Sim in our private eswes so the community fulfills its obligation of the individual fulfills its obligation and perhaps then at the Hanukkah party it's the opportunity for the family unit to get together and fulfill the family's obligation of zamiro sashem of shirat Hashem of Hashem and in that sense the Hanukkah party fulfills a very great Mitzvah the Mitzvah of him so if at our Hanukkah Pirates we remind our family now not as a seaboard not as an individual but as a family we say to Hashem we thank you that you have given us you've restored to us the midst of Shabbos will be a fulfillment of the great precept of Hashem of thanking Hashem as a family unit wishing you and your family foreign [Music]